A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
Elsewhere:
If the government want to help bring down the benefits bill and improve productivity then they need to invest heavily in mental health. Reduce the waiting time for assessment, make it easier to keep your prescription renewed and think about making some of the standard drugs in this country to improve supply.
Everyone should subscribe to Gary’s Economics.
Using the opposition’s resources against them is a tried and trusted strategy in protest and subversion.
You’d also be following the “Syndicate Elsewhere” part of POSSE.
I’d say Eureka, probably followed closely by 88 Films. With most of the others you can do while months without something intriguing popping up but they usually have a few that catch my eye.
After reading Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s review, I now want to read his book on Liverpool.
a long overdue analysis of that weird cocktail of truth, disinformation and racism – the legend of Purple Aki, an intimidatingly large body builder of Nigerian origin whose possibly harmless but unnerving kink is asking young men if he can feel their muscles. A lot of people think he’s an urban myth.
I definitely thought Purple Aki was a myth until it came up in conversation and a couple of friends said they’d had close encounters with him.
Fun fact: r/Liverpool will remove posts about him because his nickname is racist.
That’s it. The right have been controlling the narrative for a long time, driving talking points. We need to take that back and drive our message home. With enough ad busting like this it should help salt the ground so his hateful nonsense will struggle to take root.
They hadn’t invented TV, so had to fill their time in other ways.
Risky Google.
AfaIk, they are hosted at Hetzner, so physically in Germany or Finland.
If I remember correctly, the main servers are in Hetzner’s data centre in Finland with back-ups in Germany. Although they have a complex set-up so it may not be as cleanly divided up these days.
I suspect half the Fediverse runs on Hetzner at this point.
Brilliant - thanks for sorting that.
By the looks of it, Dansup is doing attributedTo similar to how PeerTube does it, but doesn’t wrap it in an array which is annoying. Hopefully he changes that.
Perhaps we can tag him in here, get all the issues cleared up. @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
Orrrrr Friendica.
I think it’s just you.
Good find. At least you kniw where the issue is.
As Pixelfed is going to fully implement groups, it seems like an interesting time.
Huh, I’d never heard of the Indieweb
See also: Fediverse alternative to Pinterest?
We’ll probably have to figure that one out but we largely let the Mods set the tone in communities and, as this is a friendly, helpful community, I wouldn’t bet on that post remaining.
Any amount is bad for me.